Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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Politics make me sick.
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